Dakota Gordon captures… Something. It’s like magic and beauty and imperfection and transient light all rolled into one; brief moments that together montage a delicate, ugly-beautiful life. Her subjects, while often stunning, are never glamourized, always haphazard in the most captivating way possible. Messy hair, a cigarette, recklessly thrown on clothes: Dakota’s world is the everyday, the things we do and are ourselves and yet she hints at lost romance and a certain fancy that makes this simple everyday absolutely extraordinary. We talked to the photographer about determination, capturing personality and the naturalness of her work…